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EDMIUND QUINCY.

I am sure that no man can deprecate more sincerely than I do, theannexation of Texas to this union. I believe that I realize all theimmediate and all the remote bearings which that event would haveupon the great cause of Universal Freedom. There is no effort whichI would not make-no sacrifice to which I would not gladly submit-to avert that most hateful alliance. But were it accomplished to.morrow, should I despair? Should I despondingly abandon thecause of God and liberty on that account, and believe that the trickeryof a handful of scurvy politicians at Washington could cancel thedecree registered in the chancery of heaven-that every slave shall befree ? Should I even believe that the period of universal emancipa-tion would be very much delayed by that event ? No, sir. The onlyeffect which such a blow would have upon me, and which I believeit would have upon every Abolitionist, would be to make me feel thata great work was to be done in a short time. That we must concen-trate all our efforts, and multiply all our machinery for acting uponthe public mind, before the young dragon by the banks of the Sabinebe fully grown, and before she have engendered a brood like untoherself, to be arrayed by her side against the cause of God and free-dom.Whenever proclamation is made that the union of these states isdissolved, on that day the death-knell of slavery is tolled. As soonas they are released from the fatal embrace of their northern friends,their patriarchal system falls to the ground. It is the sympathy andencouragement of the free states which sustain that system now.Let the ties of interest, which create that false sympathy, be severed,and it vanishes; stifled humanity revives, and the oppressor mustsoon break his rod for very shame. It is a strange infatuation to sup-pose that any military force, or any custom house regulations, couldkeep from the inhabitants of any country the influence of the whole-some public opinion of neighboring nations, and the scorn of thecivilized world.The Americans of our revolution then fought for their own liberty,and through their example of successful resistance, for the liberty ofthe world, But the Texans are fighting for slavery among themselves,and if success crown their desperate efforts, they will have foughtfor the perpetuity of slavery throughout the world. The wishes ofthe Texians are now for their annexation to these United States ofAmerica. If they be admitted into the union, a deep, perhaps oneof the deepest blows that can be struck, will have been inflicted onthe rights of man; the name of liberty will have been profaned, herspirit disgraced, and her fair presence banished for a time, perhapsforever, from ' the land of the free, and the home of the brave.'As Texas rebelled against Mexico, because the institutions of domes-tic slavery could not exist in that nation, she, of course, would notask for admission into our union, unless permitted to enter with allher slavish retinue. She deserted Mexico, because Mexico is a freestate; she now begs in the name of liberty, and with the prayer offreemen, to be united with the United States, because here under the

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